Welcome to the latest post in our series entitled ‘Virtualization Changes Everything’ In our last post we discussed the CapEx savings provided by data deduplication of both production storage capacity and storage array cache. Deduplication is fundamentally changing the data center and it appears that there’s more on the horizon. I’d like to share with you what I call ‘Data … [Read more...] about VCE 101: What’s Next with Deduplication?
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A Customer’s Findings: VMware on NetApp vs EMC
It must be ‘Brief Post Friday’ as I keep getting pinged with great info to share all the while I have several other deadlines to meet (I guess its another evening of working until midnight). I have the privilege of sharing with you the following report compiled by a rather large customer which compares the results of virtualization consulting engagements completed by EMC and … [Read more...] about A Customer’s Findings: VMware on NetApp vs EMC
vSphere on NetApp Best Practices Released
I am please to share with you that this morning our new Technical Report, TR-3749: vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices, has been released. I’d like to thank Mike Slisinger, Larry Touchette, and Peter Learmonth for all of their assistance in the production of this TR. I’d like to take a few moments to share some of the core enhancements covered in the report. … [Read more...] about vSphere on NetApp Best Practices Released
VMware Co-Brands TR-3428
There's an update to our VI3 storage best practices technical report. There's no technical content updates to be concerned with, instead I would like to share that TR-3428 version 4.5.2 has been officially co-branded by VMware. This update is basically a quality assurance seal which states that the engineering teams at VMware and NetApp have reviewed and verified the … [Read more...] about VMware Co-Brands TR-3428
VI3 on NetApp Best Practices Update
Today we've published a minor update to our VMware on NetApp: Storage Best Practices Technical Report TR-3428. After posting the blog announcing version 4.4 I received a number of comments and emails asking to share and comment as we publish future updates, so without further adieu here's the highlights of version 4.5.1... … [Read more...] about VI3 on NetApp Best Practices Update